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Article: Bringing Reality to Gas Mileage Figures
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- May 24, 2005
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It's another kind of sticker shock.
What new car owner hasn't found, after some real-world driving and
a fill-up at the pump, that the sticker in the window promising
decent gas mileage was considerably inflated?
Now, for the first time in 30 years, the Environmental Protection
Agency may have to get in gear to revise the test it has been using
on new vehicles to determine a more realistic estimate of expected
mileage for city and highway driving.
That's because, with gas prices at high levels, consumer and
environmental groups backed a provision offered by Sen. Maria
Cantwell (D-Wash.) in the just-passed Senate highway bill that would